Official thread and signing news

[sallymay]

Suli pole is nsw cup age
Jai bowden although he is on a development deal is only under 21s (I think)

Other then that it looks pretty good

I think we have signed a few nsw cup players as well but not sure of their names I’ve just seen some names floating round as possibility’s but not 100% sure

I wish they would update the storm profiles page

[Mattpoet]

Unlikely to update soon based on how little care they put into the website otherwise sadly

[Bullucked]

Unlikely to update soon based on how little care they put into the website otherwise sadly

Do we know how it compares to other clubs?

[sallymay]

I’ve never looked at other teams websites but a lot of the teams have Insta dedicated to pathways which storm started very recently

[yanjarra]

6 man benches just confirmed for this season. Not sure how that will look for us but i assume it will mean a dedicated outside back or even 2 will be a given. So i assume we will see 2 of peel/waitere/leo/stb/heth/chan/moale ...maybe even an extra half like krs in the game day 19 added to the 17 paps already listed. Weakens the cup side slightly. Not sure if cup will be 19 game day also.

[Papenhuyzen23]

Tino staying with Titans until end of 2030, there goes that. Hopefully we get Cooper Bai still.

[blazza18]

There was a time where I'd be more disappointed in missing out on him again. You watch him compared to the other top elite middles in the league and he doesn't quite match them. Good not great and we really need a great player in the middle for us.

[Storm Spirit]

Tino staying with Titans until end of 2030, there goes that. Hopefully we get Cooper Bai still.

Club culture - tick
Weather - cross
Chance of sustained success - tick
A ridiculous amount of money - cross
Lifestyle - tick & cross (both places have pros and cons)

We all wanted Tino on sensible dollars but I don't reckon any of us REALLY thought it would happen ....did we ?

[Bullucked]

Tino staying with Titans until end of 2030, there goes that. Hopefully we get Cooper Bai still.

Club culture - tick
Weather - cross
Chance of sustained success - tick
A ridiculous amount of money - cross
Lifestyle - tick & cross (both places have pros and cons)

We all wanted Tino on sensible dollars but I don't reckon any of us REALLY thought it would happen ....did we ?

Nope. Strikes me as a mercenary. Could be great in moments, like Origin, otherwise seemed a bit hot and cold to me.

[Lucas]

Tino staying with Titans until end of 2030, there goes that. Hopefully we get Cooper Bai still.

Club culture - tick
Weather - cross
Chance of sustained success - tick
A ridiculous amount of money - cross
Lifestyle - tick & cross (both places have pros and cons)

We all wanted Tino on sensible dollars but I don't reckon any of us REALLY thought it would happen ....did we ?

Nope. Strikes me as a mercenary. Could be great in moments, like Origin, otherwise seemed a bit hot and cold to me.

Mercenary would be fair if he signed at Perth. Not sure it's fair when he re-signed at Gold Coast.

[Bullucked]

Do we know how much of a haircut Tino took to stay? (As compared to what the Bears were offering)

[Stormszn]

Cooper Bai re-signs with the Titans. Pretty disappointing to not get either Tino or Bai. Who else is even off contract?

[blazza18]

We are not having a good offseason but hey at least Matt Tripp is in the press making himself look like an idiot over this Lomax thing.

[sallymay]

Can’t be sad about losing something we never had I guess

[yanjarra]

Disappointed to miss both. Hannay must be doing some good things to secure them both before a ball is kicked this year. Wasn't that confident re. Tino, but thought we were a decent shout at Bai. Really need to hope lomax comes off now or things look a bit bleak for us in terms of winning comps soon imo. Not sure who the next target area is but surely needs to be a premier middle still. Don't know contract situations but I'd still like to see us go hard at lindsay smith. I'm pretty sure they'll be leaving some leeway just in case sua don't work out. Fletcher Sharpe situation is one to keep an eye on if he is shuffled to the wing with smith, brown and ponga at 7,6, 1 - reminds me a bit of prime paps when in the 1 jersey.

Think Tripp has articulated himself really well in the media. Rightfully points out Parra hypocrisy with the way they approached Ryles without permission, and then why are we getting crucified when half a dozen clubs approached lomax as well as ourselves. We are the big bad guys because we are the club he actually wants to go to??! Give me a break.